Thimbleweed Park - Switch

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: 9-21-2017
Moby Score (1-10): 8
Genre(s): Adventure, Puzzle elements, Detective / mystery, Comedy, Crime, 3rd-person (Other), 2D scrolling, Graphic adventure, Point and select, North America
Media Type(s): Physical

Welcome to Thimbleweed Park. Population: 80 nutcases.

A haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt-out pillow factory, a dead body pixelating under the bridge, toilets that run on vacuum tubes... you've never visited a place like this before.

Five people with nothing in common have been drawn to this rundown, forgotten town. They don't know it yet, but they are all deeply connected. And they're being watched.

...Who is Agent Ray really working for and will she get what they want?
...What does Junior Agent Reyes know about a 20 year old factory fire that he's not saying?
...Will the ghost, Franklin, get to speak to his daughter again?
...Will Ransome the *Beeping* Clown ever become a decent human being?
...Will aspiring game developer Delores abandon her dreams and stick by her family?
...And most importantly: how come no one cares about that dead body?

By the end of a long, strange night in Thimbleweed Park, all of this will be answered -- and you'll question everything you thought you knew.

In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems.

Key Features:
* From Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. * A neo-noir mystery set in 1987. * 5 playable characters who can work together… or get on each other's nerves. * Not a walking simulator! * Satisfying puzzles intertwined with a twisty-turny story that will stay with you. * A vast, bizarre world to explore at your own pace. * A joke every 2 minutes... guaranteed!* * Casual and Hard modes with varied difficulty. * English voices with English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish subtitles.

*Not a guarantee.

Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click adventure with a design similar to graphic adventures games released in the 1980s and early 90's, such as Maniac Mansion (1987) and The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) the main developers previously worked on. The game consists of eight parts and is set in 1987 in Thimbleweed Park, a city with a population of eight. A man is found murdered and the FBI agents Angela Ray and Alberto Reyes are sent there to solve the case.

The game uses a classic control mechanic with verb commands such as "use", "pick up" and "talk to" to interact with the characters and the environment. Progress is based on furthering the story and solving puzzles. There are several items to collect and they are stored in an inventory. During the course of the game five characters become playable, but Ray and Reyes are the main ones. Just like in Maniac Mansion, for a large part of the game it is possible to switch between the two characters at any moment. They need to work together to solve puzzles, sometimes by being in different locations. They each have their own inventory and can trade items with each other.

The other characters often have their own slices of gameplay through self-contained flashbacks, such as Dolores the computer programmer of Ransome the clown, but in other parts they all work together. The game has a humorous tone and often breaks the fourth wall. The game can be played in a casual mode with easier puzzle or in a traditional, hard mode. The game has a built-in, context sensitive hint system. At any moment it is possible to call an in-game hotline and gets hints on what to do next, based on the current context. All characters are voiced. The game both saves automatically and supports manual saving. There are no death states in the game. Optionally small specks of dust can be collected in several locations.

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